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A review by ichirofakename
Mimi by Lucy Ellmann
3.0
I picked this up because I so loved her most recent novel, Ducks, Newburyport. This is nothing like it, except for one 3-page sentence near the middle. Fascinating and well-drawn characters, ongoing light cleverness. Feminism and art laden. But I found the ending quite off-putting.
SPOILERS:
Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy's sister dies, boy gives an insane speech, boy gets girl back. Excellent until the speech, which jumps the shark, a rabid feminist manifesto, inadequately set up, and a jolting change in tone. I actually skipped over it. Followed only by a saccharine sweet coda-like happy resolution, the end. Oh yeah, I also didn't read the several self-indulgent appendices which pad out the volume.
SPOILERS:
Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy's sister dies, boy gives an insane speech, boy gets girl back. Excellent until the speech, which jumps the shark, a rabid feminist manifesto, inadequately set up, and a jolting change in tone. I actually skipped over it. Followed only by a saccharine sweet coda-like happy resolution, the end. Oh yeah, I also didn't read the several self-indulgent appendices which pad out the volume.